Transcript of the last known recording of individual known as Vanquisher, aka Alayna Cane, 23 December (estimated) 2100
“If you’re watching this, well… I figure we both know what that means. That’s sort of why I’m choosing to do it – I can’t bear the thought of you getting the last word in. Consider this my apology, or maybe consider it my explanation for why it all ended up this way. Just… do me a favor and don’t blame yourself for this, okay?
I guess it was my fault in the end for being naïve. I was so certain we’d won, especially after all that work we’d done to trace the source of the… ugh, I can’t believe I’m about to say it, ‘the Conspiracy.’ There was no way they’d be able to wriggle out of it, seeing as how they’d left their fingerprints all over everything. Plus, it seemed like everyone had planned to double cross everyone else, so we had all these recordings of them planning the whole thing. Ironclad, right?
Well, you know by now that’s completely fucking wrong. Everything’s gotten… complicated in a way that I’m not a huge fan of. I mean, how long do I have until she realizes I don’t have any kind of leverage anymore and comes after me? At least, not unless I can fix this somehow, which is, you know, what I’m trying to do. And uh, why I had to make this. For you.”
Note: There is a rather lengthy pause here, and the recording appears to stop and start again.
“I should have been smarter. I should have seen this coming – it was written all over the disagreements we’ve been having, but I thought she’d see reason. Reason from my end, anyway. If I’d known… Maybe we could have figured something out that didn’t involve all this. I wish I hadn’t had to…. Do what I did. We were supposed to be a team. I thought she knew that. I thought she understood that. I don’t know, maybe it was inevitable, given everything, that it would end up like this. For all I know it’s baked into her nature. I don’t know that I believe that, but it’s certainly a possibility. The only thing I know for certain is that I can’t just let this go. I’ve got to try to stop it before it gets out of hand. Stay safe, okay? I… well, you know.”
Recording ends. Intelligence indicates the recording was made two days before the Black Christmas of 2100 occurred
[see file ‘d3m3t3r Consortium’ for further details – S.A. Karl Hernandez].
Drone footage of the Vanquisher from the event shows her being struck by gunfire and falling into the lake. Analysis at the scene revealed significant blood loss, likely fatal. Recovery efforts failed to find a body, though a prosthetic arm thought to belong to the Vanquisher and several other pieces of equipment, including a cane and remote device for her car
[a complete list of Vanquisher-related items seized during the investigation is later in this file]
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I guess it’s time to start spinning this thing back up again, huh?I don’t think we’re in weekly installments territory...
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